Andy Charnas – At the Institute of Advanced Uncertainty

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Artist Statement

We live in a fragmented time dominated by quick glances and the distraction of spectacle. Art for me is a search for wholeness beyond these fragments. The process, the slow looking, being deeply present and open and engaged in the world, is beautiful and magical. I am just simply being here where I am, discovering, aware, amazed, and grateful.
All images are abstract, but I’m not after symbols. I want to see the thing itself. And so mostly my photographs are straightforward. I believe in the beauty of truth, easy or hard. What’s going on matters, to all of us. I hope that people can look at my photographs and have a sense of what it was like, then, and there. What I saw, the unknown story it may start to tell, the feeling it creates.